Hello
I had a read and your MetaLibrarian thoughts are about bang-on. It seems
your almost proposing a middleware solution, I really like the idea of
haven a common interface in which all media applications can talk to. I
love for this concept to extend to all meta information from myth. I
imagine a layered architecture that uses an raw xml interface that
everybody could inteface too. This would very much play into my idea of
making improvements to the mythweb - music interface (as well as
mythstream). If you can get a small porition of this to go ahead, I'll
help where i can. Unfortunately I don't have any C++ skills.
I know that Myth is all about convergence. I think application
convergence is something worth considering.
Ian Jackson
Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>>> Please can people give me feed back on this idea (link at the end).
>>>> It relates to how multiple applications can store audio metadata in a
>> common form which everyone can query/update according to a common API.
>>>> It would remove a huge amount of complexity from applications and
>> allow multiple applications to all work with common configuration
>> setups, playlists and advanced metadata info, and common system for
>> storing metadata.
>>>> It may not be the short term solution that MythMusic need with respect
>> to the ID3 tagging issues that I introduced but it may be a good
>> framework/movement to spin off from Myth for the greater good of all.
>>>> I would almost certainly require additional dependancies in Myth, but
>> these could probably be maintained as wrapped up libmyth components.
>>>> It is a long description, so it will take you a while to read it, but
>> I would really appreciate opinions/feedback as to whether anyone
>> thinks it a worthwhile project.
>>>> Feedback to the email at the end of the link or on this list would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>>> I'm kinda expecting a "this is dumb/stupid/pointless" response, so I
>> wont be offended if this is indeed the case and someone can open my
>> eyes!!
>>>>http://colin.guthr.ie/content/view/5/31/>>>>>> All the best
>>>> Col.
>>>> PS comments on my Mambo setup that I've done practically nothing with,
>> will be ignored!!!! ;)
>>>>Sounds great if you can find the support among the tools.
Another that should be convinced is the Jinzora
(http://www.jinzora.org/) webapp. They started using mysql for metadata
also and it would be great to integrate their tool in mythweb.
Steven